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9
Vanity plates in the news
Colorado DMV nixes TOFU vanity plate citing obscenity concern
By Ernest Luning 4/8/09 7:49 AM
The Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles turned down a request from a vegan driver to display ILVTOFU on a set of personalized license plates because the phrase could be construed as obscene, Tom McGee reports in The Denver Post. “”We don’t allow FU because some people could read that as street language for sex,” Department of Revenue spokesman Mark Couch told the Post.